Repent? Really? Haven’t we graduated from the angry Father God of the Israelites? Who needs a rule book with a hundred or more prescribed prayers for every micro-action of the day, like brushing your teeth and putting on your pants. We’re not nomadic tribes in …
Last May, at the Global Earth Repair conference, I got my first glimmer of hope in many years. I’ve got the late-stage capitalism, ruinous-leaders, poisonous-policies blues. Big time. Speaker after speaker at the conference talked of regenerative practices to heal what ails us and …
As a member of the Deep Adaptation Forum, I was invited to write a post for Jem Bendell’s blog. I’d been reading posts in the Forum various plans to move to the country, buy property, invite people to build an intentional community together, and ride out …
OBG = oldies but goodies. This post from almost exactly 10 years ago is like a “report from the front” of my own thinking related to the question: How can Americans fall in love with limits the way we’ve fallen in love with freedom?” …
COP25 (the 25th Conference of the Parties convened by the United Nations to addre for 10 days in Decemberss climate change) will bring together tens of thousands to Santiago, Chile, December 2 -13, with the intent of all nations being sufficiently committed and accountable about …
As the climate crisis rises in public awareness, people have trouble understanding what to do – especially when the “climate doctors” fight among themselves about treatment. Using the disease model we can sort the interventions in 3 categories: curing, healing or denial/ letting the …
I know @realdonaldtrump. Not personally but many many years ago I lived with a bully-man. He was a smart, charismatic, focused and a my-way-or-the-highway kind of guy. Before I met him people would have said I was intelligent, attractive and creative. After some years with …
Global warming –> global heating. Climate change –> Climate chaos. Civilizational in crisis –> Civilization headed for collapse. Systemic problems are multiplying with breakneck speed now, and “climate change” has moved, faster than anticipated, from a heady discussion to a gut-wrenching existential issue, reverberating …
We talk of “climate change” as if it is a phenomenon out there, not in here. That comfortable lie shattered this year, and this post spills out some of my feelings. If climate change is someone else’s responsibility, we play the blame game, and put …
In improv theater we have a game called: What is this? For example, What is this? Yes of course it is a Trader Joe’s plastic tub for chocolate chip cookies. But what else is it? A container for compostable veggie scraps. An under-sink container for …
